On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Keith Moore wrote:
[ rejecting bytes 128-255 as an anti-spam technique ]
zero false positives
Wrong. A huge number of non-spam messages use bytes 128-255.
I have yet to see a single one. of course, since I only speak English,
there's a very high probability that any message that I see that contains
those bytes in a message header is spam. at any rate, they're all in
violation of the standards, and as far as I'm concerned, it's reasonable to
outright reject any message that is so flagrantly broken.
You mean like the mail I just fished out of my box that starts like this?
To: snowhare(_at_)nihongo(_dot_)org
Subject: Welcome to Wells Fargo Online®.
I'm glad to know that it wasn't English. Or important.
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Benjamin Franz
"If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
-- Norm Schryer, Bell Labs